Can I use Bluetooth Headphones to listen to the FM Radio on a 7th Generation Ipod nano?
Since the EarPod cord is used as the antenna, the EarPods must be pluged into the Headphone jack. After Bluetooth Headphones paired with Ipod nano, will the audio still go out the Headphone jack or will the audio go to the Bluetooth Headphones when listening to the Radio? Has anyone tried this yet?
You can select the desired output as described on page 55 of the iPod's User Guide.
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/ipod_nano_user_guide.pdf
However, I believe at one point somebody attempted this, but with no luck as the audio from the FM radio can only be streamed out via the headphone jack, but please, please, don't quote me on that!
B-rock
The irritating part is that if you connect the wired earphones and play music it WILL connect to BT headphones and speakes and send the audio to those BT devices. So it is absolutely possible to have wired headphones attached and redirect the audio to BT. They just didn't implement this for the FM Radio, or forgot, or didn't think it was important. The requirement for the headphones for the antenna, shouldn't preclude using BT as an output for the FM Radio. The switch output device shown in the nano manual (http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/ipod_nano_user_guide.pdf) pg 55 only appears next to the volume control if you are playing music.
Needs to be fixed, if for no other reason than it is inconsistent. A blight on the interface.
I thought I had read it worked, as you are describing, but I cannot find the link so now I am not sure if I read the article correctly or not (that is, a set of headphones plugged in as antennae, but the sound streamed over BT).
I bought this Ipod nano yesterday. I was hoping Bluetooth Headphones could be used with all audio including FM Radio. That would make it a little easier to pay for the Bluetooth Headphones I plan to buy.
I read elsewhere that the FM radio and Bluetooth functions are provided by one chip in the iPod nano. Is it possible that there is a design limitation that the chip can only provide one of those functions at a time and cannot do both?
They really need to fix this i purchased the nano specifically because it had bluetooth and now i find out i cant listne to the radio through my bluetooth device. Soooo very disapointing apple. a simple firmware fix would be fine to use the bluetooth device while having headphones plugged in.
I'm going to quote you!!! Repeatedly.
And I did post here that I tried it and it did not work, the sound was directed out through the earpods when using FM.
You should be able to listen to anything the device can play - once paired the BT headphones will stream whatever the iPod is playing.
Not at this time as the Nano relies on the headphone's plug to provide FM radio reception.
B-rock
Thanks a billion for clarifying that. Much appreciated!
B-rock
I believe rentamark is correct and a firmware update would not fix that issue. You would also have extremely short battery life.
Bluetooth Headphones with FM Radio?
